How to make long-distance relationships work

I try to keep things pretty highbrow around here. 
This comic features the lovely and talented Erika Moen and Ananth Panagariya!  Read all of their stuff if you haven't already; it is stellar. :3

Issue #3 of Tally Marks (my Eurotrip sketchbook series) comes out on October 1, and you can pre-order it now!  This issue covers Christmas and New Years in London, plus my trip to Picardy.  Coats and fur hats abound.  Here are a few previews:

I tabled at Rose City Comic Con this past weekend in Portland, and it was great!  In my head it was all a big post-Europe welcome-back party for me so I could see everyone and catch up all at once. :) I sold out of Husbands and a bunch of my prints, and got down to my last copies of Between Gears and A Boy & A Girl.  I am trying to minimize my boxes for my next move, and I may be selling off my remaining books in the near future with incentives like free watercolor sketches inside or free prints.  Stay tuned for that.

NYC: Maybe don't try to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2 hours

...And then there was a Renoir room.  We were late.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is incredible.  Lesson learned: next time I'll take at least half a day to see everything I want to and not sprint to a lunch meeting.

So no, I'm not back in NYC this week; this is a retrospective comic from my trip in July (featuring @passingfair!).  I have a BUNCH of comic ideas from the past year that I'll be going back to complete retroactively -- look forward to those! :D

What have I been up to since coming back to Portland at the end of July? 

• I scanned and edited alllllllll of my Europe sketchbooks for publication - issues 1 and 2 are out now!!  More coming soon.
• I had an art show to promote Sarah Mirk's new book, which I drew illustrations for
• I did a few solid weeks of commercial storyboarding/illustration work (much needed and appreciated!)
• I resumed work on a project with a friend and posted this little teaser for it:

• I was a guest at Boise Library Comic Con (which was a BLAST!)
• I took a short vacation to Central Oregon with some comics friends

 

• I helped out on Abigail Baird and Matthew Melis's "Aerial Animation" project (featured on America's Got Talent!)
• I met with my publisher about my next graphic novel
• I ate a LOT of Mexican food
• I did my taxes X_X
• I've been appreciating family/friends time after a year away.  Lots of movies/dinners/coffee/drinks
• I've been continuing to sketch, trading Parisians for Portlanders:

 

 

 

...and plenty of things from my imagination :)

I'll post again ASAP with more!  Thanks for reading :D